Sentence examples for illusion of equality from inspiring English sources
Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality.
At home, anyway, I suspect it may be the illusion of equality that matters more than equality itself.
Wolton discusses that image-fabrication in relation to Strauss-Kahn's arrest: We're in an illusion of equality: the treatment is the same for all American citizens, so, also, for DSK.
In a speech widely-circulated among conservatives as proof that Holder holds a "reverse-racism" grudge against white Americans, Holder spoke frankly about the illusion of equality that impedes the expansion of equality.
Joining them in this contentious terrain is Rebecca Asher's polemic Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality (Harvill Secker, April), calling for a revolution in child-rearing based on greater equality for mothers.
Rebecca Asher's Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality wishes to transform this specific, personal anger into something general and wide-ranging, and hence to put it at a certain distance from herself.
"The French accept the brutality of selection on condition that we maintain the illusion of formal equality," says Elie Cohen, an economist and member of the government's advisory Council of Economic Analysis.
(As an example of how America provides "adequate illusions" of social equality, he notes that fans of, say, the Los Angeles Lakers "can vicariously share in their team's triumphal quest for enduring greatness").
The word harks back inadvertently to the old Soviet Union and dictators who hawked the illusion of community and economic equality while crushing dissent.
By getting all this information on a screen, the public is going to be promoted and encouraged, given the illusion of hope that information and equality of access is going to to enable them to play.
Citing Kant's Contest of Faculties, Slavoj Žižek has incisively suggested that if there is such a thing as human progress, it is punctuated by triumphs of illusions -- equality, liberty, justice -- which have an ethical value that material gains do not.
